Let The Creatard Shitting of Bricks Begineth

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Good job summarizing your post right at the start.

No, the story does not 'comport with science.'  It's ambiguous enough to allow people like you to come up with some pretty imaginative interpretations, but the way that those interpretations always seem to track with science --instead of the other way around-- shows that it's not your book that has it right.

Scripture also stated that the sky was a canvas stretched across the flat circle of the world by a supernatural being, centuries before science proved that it was a fairy tale.

And then the second chapter gives a completely different summation of the creation account, with at least a handful of contradictions.

God is the person I see in the mirror every day.  So in that sense, god exists.  Contrary to your statement, I am comfortable putting my fate in god's hands.  At least, in the hands of a god who can actually act and get things done.[/hide]

Scripture stated millenniums before science proved, yes proof, (Hawking-Penrose theorem) that the universe had a beginning; even 100 years-ago the prevailing notion was the universe was eternal.

"Scripture also stated that the sky was a canvas stretched across the flat circle of the world by a supernatural being"  - Actually, it says " He is above the circle of the earth,..... He stretches out the heavens like a canopy".

And now, more evidence for the Creation Big Bang Model --- "Astronomers have long theorised the existence of a first generation of stars — known as Population III stars"*. Big Bang critics had argued that the failure to detect of first born generation (Pop3**) stars, falsified all big bang models. Since the universe started with 3 basic elements (hydrogen, helium, lithium), the first generation stars would have been compose of these elements virtually metal free (metal is formed in later population stars). Until recently only Pop 1 & 2 stars were detected. Recent discoveries of Pop 3 stars validates the biblical account: the cosmos began. and consequently it further validates its divine authority, inerrancy, and inspiration. The Bible has stated the universe was brought into existence, something new, something that didn't exist before, and states frequently that the universe is in a cosmic 'stretching-out' state and makes the point that God alone is responsible for the universe expanding.

*http://www.eso.org/public/usa/news/eso1524/

**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_po..._III_stars